“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt simply drops the issue for a while—and then he feels panicky—at times a quite normal reaction to a sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] A belief in powerlessness in any area sets up its possibility in others — it operates as negative suggestion.”

[...] and you (WL) are not powerless. [...] and I am not powerless... [...]

[...] The majority of accepted beliefs — religious, scientific, and cultural — have tended to stress a sense of powerlessness, impotence, and impending doom — a picture in which man and his world is an accidental production with little meaning, isolated yet seemingly ruled by a capricious God. [...]

One of the strongest general causes of depression, for example, is the belief that your conscious mind is powerless either in the face of exterior circumstances thrust upon you from without, or before strong emotional events that seem to be overwhelming from within.

Know that yearning is made up of feelings of despair caused by a sense of powerlessness, not of power. [...]

[...] Now, I tell you to remember your dreams and in your context, I tell you again, not only to remember your dreams, but to learn to come awake in the middle of your dream and realize that you can manipulate within it, and that you form it, and that it is yours not something thrust upon you in which you are powerless. [...]

Now, through all of this you must realize that you are not powerless and physical reality is a dream. [...]

In his situation however he has largely felt powerless to alter the conditions. [...]

[...] He wanted to help you, and felt powerless to a large extent.

Man therefore feels himself powerless. [...]

[...] In your mind’s eye you still see yourself as overweight, imagine the goodies and snacks, and in your terms “give in” to your imagination — and you think that willpower is useless and conscious thought powerless.

They feel powerless, unable to change, yet unwilling to stay in the same position. [...]

Here was a young man whose beliefs were alive with their own life while he was relatively powerless. [...]

[...] Unfortunately in his present state, powerless as it were without Augustus Two, he might also simply call on his “alter ego” to show the good doctor that he was no one to trifle with.

If I presume to solve problems for you, then I deny you your own power, and further reinforce any feelings of powerlessness that you have. [...]

[...] But when you take over the responsibility for washing his clothes you are denying him acts that he did do—and can do, and adding to a sense of powerlessness in that regard. [...]

[...] It is powerless in this respect only. [...]

[...] And that this vitality is your own—then feel it within yourselves—now it is being used simply to let you know of its existence, but realize that it is within you for you to use as you will—for your own good—and you (Brad) are not powerless. I have no body and I am not powerless, how, therefore, can you feel helpless, or you, or any of you? [...]

Basically however you see he has lived through the night; the feared death was powerless against him. [...]

[...] They feel powerless, so that many strike out in self-righteous anger or vengeance against a world that they see as cynical, greedy, perverted. [...]

[...] As I have stated [several times], if you feel unworthy, or powerless to act, and if you are idealistic, you may begin to feel that the ideal exists so far in the future that it is necessary to take steps you might not otherwise take to achieve it. [...]

So do not feel that you are powerless, do not feel that you are at the mercy of events, for you form events not only in this reality, but in these other realities which you do not consciously understand. [...]

(10:08.) The patient, therefore, often feels relatively powerless and at the mercy of any stray virus that might come along. [...]